Anyone else? Got told last day is 6/6/26, ironically enough. On the east coast. Not even sure if all my coworkers are aware yet either. Next steps are basically severance or reapply to a role nearby and hope the rsm likes you. Had another friend find out the same thing at his store in the south as well.
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This is stupid. Always blaming T-Life. If you understand business or the business as a whole, going digital is not intended to create layoffs. Layoffs and store closures are a larger byproduct of
- USC acquisition. Can't have 2 stores near each other. Close the store that is coming up on lease end date and or the most expensive
- Company can no longer afford stacking stores with excess employees and leaders as employee have complained over and over again that having too many people in a store limits opportunities. I think is lesser the reason
- As a business, labor is your largest controllable expense, so it's needs to be controlled
- AR closures are the main targets
- As the business scales, decisions have to be made on stores that are either profitable or not profitable
- Retail store will 100% still exist, just not at the surplus that has been happening for years
I'm not being sensitive here because anytime somebody loses a job I personally feel for them, but that is the state of the business. It's su-ks but look across the tech field. Layoffs are happening. Companies have to be profitable to survive, so you have to cut and rebuild, this is the cycle of any large organization. Again, it's unfortunate but that's the reality.
We need to stop blaming T-Life because our T-Life performance su-ks but yet, here we are.
Hustle and grind and you'll be alright!
@en phantom competition
This place is waiting for the next company to take it. Sprint in replay
@cn interesting insight. I just saw a mint commercial on tv. I’m surprised we are still running mint as a separate brand.
it's no secret the digital push to T-Life will result in few stores. Plus, the thousands of kiosks at Sam's and Costco covers a Yuge number of pops. Remember the Mint acquisition? A big part of that deal was to leverage their digital only processes. Gulp, well here we are, and I can clearly say "I told ya so" as the basis and strategy for that deal. My heart goes out to retail teammates but please be trying to develop your skills and career to something more sustainable. Particularly if you have babies to feed.
@aj They’ll go back to their yearly big announcement layoff while going the small layoffs by a thousand cuts method throughout. It’s been the formula for a while now.
That post claiming no layoffs till 2030 aged well.